Hand in Cap
“Will I ever walk again… Could I run, jump, dance? No, just walk…”
The body’s constraint becomes a language
In a tight playing space, Jimmy Omoï develops a captivating, dexterous movement vocabulary made of waves and pulses. He tells of the body’s constraints through dance, narrates his immobility through movement, and evokes his differences and particularities.
Through a play of double perspectives, he stages his own story and reveals, with restraint, how an immobilised body that only longs to express itself confronts the world. He hands the floor to the audience and opens a dialogue about how we relate to others, especially to those who do not fit the norm.
“Jimmy’s physical radicality is striking proof that this is in no way a demonstration, but a genuine proposal of choreographic creation.”Philippe Guisgand, dance researcher, University of Lille
In creation for 2027: a second part, Entre Deux – Système D (working title), about invisible disability.
- Format
- Dance solo
- Performer
- Jimmy Omoï
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Audience
- All audiences, ages 6+
- Venues
- Created for indoor stages, adaptable outdoors
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Cast
- Choreography: Rachid Hedli
- Performer: Jimmy Omoï
- Musical composition: Mattis Dupond Bianchi
- Photos: Chloé Besnard
- Support: CCN de Roubaix, Le Flow (City of Lille), Le 9-9bis, Métaphone, Nord Department
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Talking about difference, dance workshops for all audiences, meetings between pupils and disability sports clubs or medical facilities, impromptu dance moments: the show never leaves anyone indifferent, and hope, resilience and joy run through these encounters.